MILWAUKEE SHOPS INC.
PO BOX 210972
MILWAUKEE, WI 53221

Our next publication will be:
Hiawatha
NOTHING FASTER ON RAILS
C.M.St.P.&P. RR. Passenger Equipment and Locomotives
Volume II
 1936 - 1942
Hiawatha - NOTHING FASTER ON RAILS a deluxe, hard cover, spiral bound book, detailing the ongoing development of lightweight passenger car construction by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad. More than 200, 11" x 14" pages with over 220 photographs, most never before published, and over 60 drawings illustrating:

• The development of the Milwaukee Road's 2nd & 3rd lightweight - high speed trains: THE HIAWATHA's of 1936 and 1939.
• HO scale plans and full color side elevations of all cars produced by the Milwaukee Shops 1936 - 1942, with later modified versions.
• Also included are THE HIAWATHA'S locomotives.
• A photographic pictorial of THE HIAWATHA'S operation.
• Later modifications and assignments of the 1936 - 1942  passenger equipment built by the Shops.

Plus  foldouts containing:

• Original company floor plans and drawings of equipment.
• Equipment assignments.
• System map showing routes where the original lightweight equipment was used.

Preview pages from this Volume:
Nothing Faster on Rails (page 1) PDF File 682K
Nothing Faster on Rails (page 16) PDF File 2Meg
Note: These are BIG files, and a High Speed connection is recommended !

Additional volumes are planned which will document the evolution of The Hiawatha into a fleet of trains serving the Mid West and the West Coast.
A Complete accounting of the Milwaukee Road's "Standard" passenger equipment is also planned.
"Hiawatha - NOTHING FASTER ON RAILS"  is NOT YET available.
Please monitor this site for announcements regading planned publication date.

Color 22" x 34" poster of the 1934 passenger cars and The Hiawatha side elevations are still available:
at $10.00 each plus $3.00 Shipping.

MILWAUKEE SHOPS INC.
P.O. BOX 210972
MILWAUKEE WI 53221

(Wisconsin Residents must include 5.5% State & County Tax).

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4   pages Chapter 1.
75 pages Chapter 2 Original equipment.
34 pages Chapter 3 “Hiawatha Pictorial”.
28 pages Chapter 4 Locomotives.
6   pages Chapter 5 Color Pictorial.
40 pages (est.) Chapter 6 Modified Equipment.
8  pages (est.) Colored plans.
4  pages (est.) Painting Information.
4  pages (est.) Rosters, Consists, Dispositions.
2  pages (est.) Chronology.
TBD pages (est.) Index.
TBD pages of Company floor plan fold outs. S scale 11 x 28.
209 total so far!!